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kmud-140516-memory-cognition-and-nutrition — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-140516-memory-cognition-and-nutrition. The excerpt begins at 00:38:28.740 and runs for 1 minute 1 second.

certain types of thought. And the stimulation of the hippocampus, any type of experience helps to stimulate that. For example, taxi drivers in a big city who have learned all the streets have a bigger hippocampus. But stimulation works everywhere in the brain. Nerve cells are maintaining each other so that anything you do consciously is tending to enliven the rest of your brain. It just happens that vision and smell are among the very powerful things. Music has the function of extending us through the moment, expanding our moment that we feel present.